Deadly hantavirus outbreak triggers rodent hunt in Argentina

The scientists, wearing bright blue gloves and surgical masks, checked the 150 box traps they had set out the previous night, dropping dead rats into black plastic bags that they hoisted into pickup trucks bound for a makeshift lab where they said they’d draw blood samples.

The MV Hondius, operated by Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions, made headlines after three passengers died from hantavirus a rare virus for which no vaccines or specific treatments exist.

A luxury liner at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, where ‌authorities were disembarking the remaining 25 crew members and two medical staff and planned to cremate a German woman who died.

The MV Hondius arrived in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Monday.